Which Stock Markets Have Soared By Double-Digit Percentages in 2014?

With the S&P 500 trading at just about the same level as it started in 2014, it has been hardly a gangbuster year for the U.S. stock market. And it also is a far cry from the #4 position that the U.S. stock market occupied among global stock markets in 2013.

The good news is that the range of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that invest in global markets and are available to U.S. retail investors has expanded steadily over the past few years.

That also means that your opportunities to profit from the hottest stock markets around the world have grown as well.